Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Ross Toobin (21 May 1960-) was an American lawyer and CNN legal analyst.

Biography
Jeffrey Ross Toobin was born in New York City, New York in 1960, the son of two journalists. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review while attending Harvard, and he began freelancing for The New Republic while a law student. He became an Assistant US Attorney in Brooklyn, serving for three years and serving as an associate counsel for the Department of Justice during the Iran-Contra affair. He moved from law into writing during the 1990s and wrote several books, and he became one of the most respected legal analysts in the country, eventually joining CNN. Toobin was known to favor the elimination of the Electoral College and the US Senate due to their unfair influence on politics.